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PART OF THE WHATCOM ARTIST STUDIO TOUR HAPPENING FOOD A glance at what’s happening this week OCT. 4-5 AND 11-12 THROUGHOUT WHATCOM COUNTY 25 25 CLASSIFIEDS 10. .08 10.05.08 01 22 WEDNESDAY SUNDAY FILM FILM ON STAGE ON STAGE Steel Magnolias: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas The- The Mystery of Edwin Drood: 2pm, Bellingham 18 18 atre, Lynden Theatre Guild A Funny Thing Happened: 2pm, Anacortes Com- DANCE munity Theatre MUSIC Ballroom Dance: 6-8pm, the Leopold Velveteen Rabbit Auditions: 7pm, Bellingham
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10.02.08 GET OUT 14 Festival of Family Farms: 10am-4pm, Skagit THURSDAY County GET OUT " /4*0-!$'' Fruit Festival: 11am-4pm, Cloud Mountain Farm, ON STAGE OF MOTHER NATURE’S AM- Everson Steel Magnolias: 7:30pm, Claire vg Thomas The- BROSIAL GOODS OCT. 4-5 AT 12 atre, Lynden VISUAL ARTS A Funny Thing Happened: 7:30pm, Anacortes THE 19TH ANNUAL FRUIT Studio Tour: 10am-5pm, Whatcom County WORDS Community Theatre FESTIVAL AT EVERSON’S Artstock: 10am-8pm, Friday Harbor, San Juan Good, Bad, Ugly: 8pm, Upfront Theatre Island
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4 in good faith and complied adopted by the council (Agen- ket) and am very disappointed with normal procedural re- da Bill 2008-261B) and read- in the city’s management of NEWSPAPER ADVISORY GROUP: Robert Hall, Seth Murphy, Michael Petryni, David Syre quirements in updating the ing on the county website that the parking in that area. My concern is the LUKE pay stations that economy, we must realize that compa- have resurfaced from the grave. nies “too big to fail,” are simply too big Two years ago, Bellingham City Coun- to exist. We cannot allow investment cil ordered them off the street, with banks and corporations to become so one council member stating, “Nuke the powerful that their demise can threat-
LUKEs.” en our nation’s very existence. Indeed, So why are they back? Only to justify there was a time not so long ago when 30 the enormous expenditure of their pur- corporations had predetermined life FOOD chase and parking management’s mis- spans to keep them from becoming too
management. influential and dangerous. 25 Will Parking Services ever learn from For the moment, let’s also be thank- their mistakes? The machines were ful we live in Bellingham, a town flush lauded as being the cure for parking with innovative minds and organiza- #VZJOBU woes (which do not exist in that area); tions, such as Sustainable Connec- %JBNPOE CLASSIFIEDS however, the machines do not function tions, giving us a head start in building
%JWJEFOET 22 correctly and the much-anticipated a local, sustainable, interconnected
launch date for the machines was can- community. In the weeks and months FILM celled. ahead, we may need each other more Every Tuesday
You would think Parking Services than we know. 18 would have the foresight to test the —Kevin Nelson, Bellingham 7pm machines before installing them on the MUSIC street. It looks like they are going to THINGS NOT SAID, DONE hire city employees as change-makers One of my fears about Sarah Palin as Enjoy our friendly dealers as well as an additional security per- our next vice president is that, when 16 son. Whoa, time flashback to 2006. John McCain offered her the opportu- atat over 2200 ooff your ART I cannot wait for City Council to order nity to be his running mate, she didn’t favorite table games! their removal again. Maybe they should say, “Thank you, John, for your offer #MBDLKBDLt$SBQTt3PVMFUUF 15 remove the fools in parking manage- and your confidence in me, but I’m DBSEQPLFStQMVTNVDINPSF ment that refuse to learn and accept not qualified to be vice president of STAGE the change. the United States. I am applauded for
—Jessica Thomas, Bellingham the work that I’ve done as governor 14 of Alaska, but I just don’t know much REAGANOMICS REDUX about being the leader of the United It’s hard to believe that it was only States and the challenges nationally GET OUT two weeks ago, Sept. 15, that John and globally that I would face. I am McCain absurdly declared “The funda- not prepared to replace you as the 12 mentals of our economy are strong,” president of the United States should further reaffirming his absolute lack of the need arrive.” WORDS both economic understanding or basic —Don VanValkenburgh, Lummi Island intuition. 8 It would be tempting to blame the Barack Obama addressed his com- bankruptcy of our vacuous, virtual ments to the audience, the moderator, new additions Just look at all the excitingiti g new additions “economy” on eight years of Enron- and directly to John McCain through- we have in store for you at Silver Reef! CURRENTS style Bushonomics, and I wouldn’t out Friday’s debate. John McCain did dissuade anyone from doing so, but I not even look at Barack Obama when 6 New addition – to our slot floor featuring believe it is more prudent to cast one’s he spoke. What’s up with that?
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TRANSFER OF BENEFIT: The concern is land- slides; and while there’s little we can do to eliminate them, there’s much we might do to
avoid inviting them. 30 30 The science and modeling of forest hydrol- views ogy, mass wasting and debris flows are as well FOOD OPINIONS THE GRISTLE supported as the physical laws that gird them,
25 25 but consider instead this simple thought experi- ment: Take two mounds of dirt. Plant one with grass. Drench each equally with a garden hose. Observe what happens. CLASSIFIEDS Analogous, the Lake Whatcom Landscape Plan is a logging plan that keeps more leafy 22 22 rooted structures longer on the forested hills
FILM FILM around Lake Whatcom, drinking water reservoir for 89,000 people. The plan was set in motion a decade ago by two women in Sudden Valley 18 18 concerned about clear-cut harvests and logging road construction on state managed lands above MUSIC BY NORMAN SOLOMON their homes. In a quiet support for which he is in-
frequently credited, Whatcom County Executive 16 Pete Kremen helped these women—Jamie Berg ART ART and Linda Marrom—get the public hearings they Crash Course needed to bring attention to their concerns. Those public hearings culminated at last in 15 TOO BIG TO FAIL AND TOO SMALL TO MATTER Olympia, in a bill that authorized the Dept. of
STAGE STAGE Natural Resources, which manages those state trust lands, to consider the unique character of THESE TIMES provide a crash lars: too big to fail. Human worth as
14 these lands. The bill also established an Inter- course on the corporate state: affirmed by humanistic values: too jurisdictional Committee (IJC) of involved locals If a company like AIG is too big to small to matter. to work with DNR to develop a plan to manage fail, the government will rescue it. The current odds of pumping at GET OUT those lands with an eye toward protecting the Mere people—too small to matter— least several hundred billion tax- public from debris flows into the lake. are expendable. payer dollars into corporate America: 12 Public sentiment was heavily weighted that The insurance industry is too big too big to fail. The current odds of these lands should not be logged at all; never- to fail. A person’s health is too small launching a massive federal jobs pro-
WORDS theless, the IJC felt a duty to produce a log- to matter, so—when it fails due to gram: too small to matter. ging plan. As we’ve mentioned before, the City the absence or loopholes of insur- THE CURRENT ODDS Such priorities and mindsets are
8 of Bellingham—a primary beneficiary of this ance coverage—that’s tough luck. in overdrive at the intersection of plan—showed little active interest in the plan’s The Defense Department is too OF PUMPING AT Pennsylvania Avenue and Wall Street. creation and mostly watched from the sidelines. big to fail. The people it’s killing in LEAST SEVERAL But a basic shift in government pri-
CURRENTS CURRENTS With the election of Mayor Dan Pike, the city Iraq and Afghanistan are too small to orities is possible. That’s what hap- began an active interest in settling the legal matter. HUNDRED BILLION pened three-quarters of a century 6 6 challenge to the plan that arose from taxing The U.S. nuclear arsenal is too big TAXPAYER DOLLARS ago, when a progressive upsurge pre- districts that would see revenues decrease from to fail. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation vented the re-election of President VIEWS VIEWS VIEWS less intensive logging. The city’s aim was legal Treaty, undermined by Washington, is INTO CORPORATE Herbert Hoover—and then effec- cost reduction, with an eye toward keeping the too small to matter. tively mobilized to pressure the new 4 landscape plan from being overturned by Wash- Overall, the warfare state is too AMERICA: TOO BIG TO occupant of the White House.
MAIL MAIL ington courts. big to fail. The virtues of peace are FAIL. THE CURRENT After campaigning in 1932 on a Whatcom County—with a much larger hand too small to matter. middle-of-the-road Democratic plat-
3 in the creation of the Lake Whatcom Landscape Agribusiness is too big to fail. ODDS OF LAUNCHING form, Franklin Roosevelt went on to
DO IT IT DO Plan—last week provisionally agreed to settle, Family farmers are too dirt-small to become a president who denounced A MASSIVE FEDERAL ending a three-and-a-half-year quarrel with matter. the “economic royalists” and made
08 08 Skagit County and Mount Baker School District The leverage for the U.S. Treasury JOBS PROGRAM: TOO common cause with working people
.01. and preserving intact the landscape plan. to subsidize Wall Street is too big to and the unemployed. People across
10 SMALL TO MATTER. The settlement was brokered in large part by fail. The leverage to subsidize moth- the country organized for social
.03 Mayor Pike, and he deserves praise for vigorously ers and children kicked off welfare is change. In the process, you might 40
# doing so; but the proposal approved by the coun- too small to matter. to matter. say, the power of progressive move- ty removes a thorny clause that would compel The political momentum for bail- The prison industry is too big to ments became too big to fail. COB and WC governments to lobby Olympia on ing out corporate America is too fail. The need for preschool is too Something like that could happen behalf of MBSD to increase the district’s access big to fail. The political momentum small to matter. again. to revenues from timber harvests. We’re told the for funding adequate payment rates Corporate power is too big to fail. clause thankfully was not a deal-killer. from Medicaid to reimburse health- The ordeals of working people and Norman Solomon is the author of the Its removal allows Conservation Northwest— care providers is too small to matter. want-to-be-working people are too new book War Made Easy: How Presi- CASCADIA WEEKLY environmental advocates who were instrumental The oil conglomerates are too big small to matter. dents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us
6 in helping draft the original landscape plan and to fail. Global warming is too small Human worth as maximized by dol- to Death. a party to the legal challenge alongside the city and county—to also sign the agreement. VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF CASCADIA WEEKLY THE GRISTLE Under the proposed settlement— and Olympia willing—the city, county and state would deliver $1.1 million to MBSD by next July to offset revenues 30 surrendered by the district as a conse- Thanks for riding WTA. FOOD quence of reduced harvests.
Whatcom County Council last week 25 also heard early testimony on what might arguably be called the next evo- lutionary phase of the landscape plan, a proposal to reduce logging impacts CLASSIFIEDS even further by the reconveyance of as much as a third of the watershed to 22
county management. Bellingham City FILM Council heard similar testimony in Au-
gust and provisionally supported the 18 proposal in a Sept. 15 resolution. Under Washington law, a county in MUSIC which there are DNR-managed state
forest trust lands may ask the state to reconvey portions of that land back to 16 the county to use as a park. There’s a ART certain harmony to the provision, as many of these lands were originally 15 transferred from county to state owner- #1 in the nation
ship during tough financial times in the STAGE 1920s and 1930s to relieve the coun- for increased
ties’ land management burden. 14 Despite artful obfuscation by op- transit ridership. ponents, the concern is, simply, land- slides; and the goal is, simply, to leave GET OUT Lake Whatcom’s hillsides timbered to the greatest extent possible. This is 12 what the public overwhelmingly told the IJC was their preferred alternative. WORDS Why a park? Why here? Why this size?
These questions circle meaning- 8 lessly (why does a horse have legs; why do its legs have hooves?) when one understands this provision is CURRENTS the only known remedy to transform 6 a mandate of resource extraction on 6 state trust lands for the financial VIEWS VIEWS benefit of taxing districts to one of VIEWS resource conservation for local water 4 quality. Why a park? Because under the law it has to be a park. MAIL
Now, a park may be defined as many things. But what a park cannot be is a 3
no man’s land sealed with razor wire IT DO guarded by machine gun nests. Public access is a quality of parks (as hooved 08 legs are a quality of horses). .01. Reconveyance has as its premise the 10
reduction of risk of landslides by leav- .03 40
ing slopes covered in timber. It has as # its principle challenge equity issues for those who suffer economically when those slopes are not harvested. Does reconveyance solve all of Lake Whatcom’s myriad problems, or even the worst of them? No. Does it accom- plish a lot while requiring little? Yes. CASCADIA WEEKLY Governments are multi-purpose and 7 can do many things simultaneously. Sometimes, what seems simple and obvious really is simple and obvious. Noting his client was charged with felony harassment, Lustick also said it was unclear who was supposedly being harassed—the web site’s readers, shoppers at Sunset Square or the detective currents whose reaction is cited in charg- ing papers. news commentary briefs “There is not one identifiable person in regard to the threat to kill,” he said. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, but Gargaro has no prior convic- tions and would face a standard range of one to three months if JEFFREY N. Gargaro, 28, faces pos- found guilty. sible jail time for writing that he should The prosecutor did not return shoot up a mall “just for the hell of it. ...No calls seeking comment. drugs, no mental illness.” He is fighting the Gargaro, a married father of BY GENE JOHNSON, ASSOCIATED PRESS charge on free-speech grounds. two, told Associated Press he Gargaro is one of several people inves- doesn’t own guns, didn’t intend ttigated in recent years for postings that his comment as a threat and was ttested the limits in the freewheeling are- trying to take issue with people nna of the web. who were assigning blame for “We admit he was stupid,” said Jeffrey the shooting before all the facts LLustick, Gargaro’s lawyer. But “people say came out. somes pretty unusual things on blogs.” “I could have definitely word- Isaac Zamora, 28, began his rampage Sept. ed it better, but I’m not sorry 2 near the town of Alger, and continued it on for what I wrote,” he said. “I CONSEQUENCES InterstateI 5, investigators said. Described was just trying to get an open byb his family as mentally disturbed, he was debate going.” He is free on capturedc after a police chase and charged $10,000 bond pending trial. withw six counts of murder. Whether people are charged Web post inflames The dead included a man who had ac- for making such comments of- cusedc Zamora of trespassing, a woman ten turns on whether what was who lived nearby, two construction work- said is a true threat, given its post-shooting ers, a motorist along the highway, and Sk- context. In December, prosecu- agit County Deputy Sheriff Anne Jackson, tors in Wisconsin declined to emotions who had responded to a call to check on charge a teacher who sarcasti- Zamora. cally praised the Columbine High The next day, Gargaro began his post on School gunmen in a blog, saying A BLAINE man who wrote The Bellingham Herald’s web site by telling they “knew how to deal with the another commenter to “shut up.” He add- overpaid teacher union thugs. on a newspaper web site ed: “Also to all of you who blame drugs... One shot at a time!” shut up as well. You know what, I am go- A month earlier, a man in that he was going to shoot ing to go shoot up sunset square today... North Dakota was sentenced to up a shopping mall says he just for the hell of it. No drugs, no mental 18 months for posting a com- illness... you can blame todays episode on ment that the Virginia Tech mas- was just making a point video games and George Bush’s example of sacre was funny and including after a mentally disturbed ‘pay back’ to society.” plans for a school shooting ram- A national parks law enforcement officer page in Bismarck. man went on a shooting in St. Louis saw Gargaro’s post the day af- Stewart Jay, a constitutional spree. But prosecutors say ter the shootings and alerted Bellingham law professor at the University Police. Detectives obtained a search war- of Washington, said it’s perfectly he was making a threat. rant and tracked Gargaro to his home in reasonable for police to inves- Blaine. tigate such comments. But, he Whatcom County Prosecutor Dave said, given the tone of the com- McEachran wrote in charging papers that ment and that Gargaro apparently the detective was “in reasonable fear... had no intention of following that the threat would be carried out, and through on what he wrote, that people could be killed or injured at the should have been the end of it. Sunset Square Mall.” “He’s making, if not a politi- But Lustick said his client was clearly trying cal point, a sarcastic point about to make a political point—awkward though it shifting blame or not taking blame may have been. The comment must be con- for things,” Jay said. “In context, sidered within the context of such reader- it’s just robust political speech.” feedback sections and blogs, which can be Cascadia Weekly is a member of “notoriously bombastic,” he said. Associated Press Newsfinder currents THE WEEK IN REVIEW
30 30 FOOD BY TIM JOHNSON groups challenge the right of the association to
use a percentage of their workers compensation 25 insurance rebates on politics. The group said any freezing of its spending would be a violation of its First Amendment rights. CLASSIFIEDS
A federal jury convicts a Vietnam veteran of first-degree murder in the death of a woman on 22
the Lummi Indian Reservation near Bellingham FILM in 1987. Henry Keeler Redlightning faces an au-
tomatic sentence of life in prison for the death 18 ee of Rita Disangh as a 21-year-old murder case is brought to conclusion. THE THAT WAS MUSIC
09.27.08 SATURDAY 16 09.23.08 ART The Bellingham Herald notes financial defaults Sen. John McCain (R) and Sen. Barack Obama(D) leave the stage at TUESDAY are drawing closer to home. The site of Cornwall the conclusion of their first presidential debate at the University of 15 Whatcom County Council votes 5-0 to end a three-and- Mississippi on Friday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Place, once envisioned as a 15-story condo devel-
a-half-year legal quarrel with Skagit County by signing a opment at Cornwall Avenue and East Maple Street STAGE settlement that preserves restrictive logging rules in the Lake paign finance violations. Commissioners condemned in downtown Bellingham, is in foreclosure. So a
Whatcom watershed. The settlement leaves the Lake What- campaign reporting errors totalling about $953,000 proposed 30-unit condo project at Telegraph and 14 com Landscape Plan intact while providing $1.1 million to over four years—some of which has fed local cam- Deemer roads, just east of Bellis Fair mall. Both are the Mount Baker School District, which has claimed financial paigns. Under the settlement, $50,000 of the fine scheduled for an Oct. 24 foreclosure sale. losses from reduced timber sales on public lands adjoining the is suspended if Realtors don’t have more reporting GET OUT district. errors before December 2011. 09.28.08 SUNDAY 12 A Mount Vernon man is arrested for the 14th time in 16 In a separate decision, the PDC does not fine years for suspicion of driving under the influence of alco- Bellingham Mayor Dan Pike for failing to report Working feverishly after a near collapse of nego- WORDS hol. Skagit County Superior Court documents say 46-year-old contributions from Realtors based on advice his tiations on Friday, Congress hammers out a pre- 8 Aaron Bridge was arrested in Sedro-Woolley when a sheriff’s campaign had received from PDC staff. Pike was carious compromise on a $700 billion bail-out of 8 deputy smelled alcohol during a traffic stop. Convicted of DUI previously fined $500, with $250 suspended, for Wall Street. The compromise includes protections at least four times in the last decade, Bridge was also driving paperwork issues and failing to declare his candi- for taxpayers and management restrictions for cor- CURRENTS CURRENTS with a suspended license. He is held in lieu of $150,000 bail. dacy in a timely manner. porate CEOs. Critics both left and right complain CURRENTS Congress was stampeded into hasty action on a plan 09.24.08 The PDC also recommends the state Attorney that wouldn’t make a dent in the nation’s economic 6 WEDNESDAY General investigate possible violations of cam- woes, which have at their root a subprime mortgage paign finance laws by the state Republican Party. meltdown and the bursting of the housing bubble, VIEWS A federal judge rejects the appeal of convicted sniper Commissioners say the party made apparent viola- followed by a wave of foreclosures.... 4 John Allen Muhammad, who was sentenced to death for a tions when it used a certain account to pay for
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KIDDING, OR KINAPPING? On Sept. 28, witnesses reported a white male running from a ve- hicle parked at the gas pumps at the South Samish Way Shell sta- CLASSIFIEDS tion in Bellingham. A second white male and a black male chased the first man and caught him a short distance away. The man was 22
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NIGHT FRIGHTS ART On Sept. 28, a Sehome woman awoke at 4am to find a man had entered her home and crawled 15 into bed with her. The man was arrested and
booked into Whatcom County Jail on suspicion STAGE of burglary. 14 On Sept. 18, a Blaine resident called police when PERCENT OF REGISTERED voters who predicted Republican John McCain she heard a man outside her house at 1:30am. As of- would handily win the first presidential debate, 11 points over Democrat ficers were responding, the woman realized the strange 51 Barack Obama. GET OUT voice was not outside but actually insider her home. She located the intruder, police say, hiding in a dresser drawer. “She found the 12 volume control on her husband’s two-way radio and silenced the PERCENT OF PEOPLE who watched the presidential debate who believed John McCain won it. troublemaker,” police observed. 22 WORDS 8 PURSE PURLOINER PURSUIT 8 PERCENT OF VIEWERS who viewed Barack Obama favorably after the debate, On Sept. 28, a man was observed walking away from a Holly Street up from 40 percent prior to the debate. bar carrying a purse. When Bellingham Police attempted to con- 69 CURRENTS CURRENTS tact him, he fled on foot with the purse. After a chase, the man CURRENTS was arrested and the purse was returned to the woman he’d stolen
CHANCE IN FOUR an American thinks women should return to their tradi- 6 it from. The 44-year-old was booked into jail for 2nd degree theft tional roles in society. and obstructing a law enforcement officer. 1 VIEWS VIEWS SOMETHING FISHY 4 On Sept. 23, a man was contacted after a Bellingham Police of- NUMBER OF ADULT inmates in Washington prisons, up from 5,796 in 1988.
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CHANCE IN 100 a Whatcom County adult smokes cigarettes. 10 tic dispute on H Street. “Arriving police contacted two residents, 17 National average, 20 percent. who each denied that an argument had occurred,” police reported. .03 40
“They explained that one of the home’s occupants was hard of # hearing, and yelling was the only way to communicate. There was PERCENT BY WHICH Whatcom County home prices continue to be overvalued, no indication of an assault,” police observed. “Officers explained the 9th worst area in the nation for home overvaluation. the problem being caused to to non-hearing-impaired neighbors.” 32
PET DEATH THREAT DU JOUR WHATCOM COUNTY'S GROSS domestic product—goods and services pro- On Sept. 17, Blaine Police responded to an ongoing neighborhood
duced per capita—in 2006, down 4.7 percent from previous year. CASCADIA WEEKLY dispute on E Street. Police say, “The disagreement du jour explored $29,230 the compliants and counter-denials over whether one neighbor’s 11 pet dog had been threatened with death after urinating in the SOURCES: Associated Press; Pew Research Center; Washington State Dept. of Corrections; Wash- other neighbor’s yard.” ington State Patrol; Washington State Dept. of Health; Global Insight/National City Corporation; U.S. Dept. of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis. doit
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6 Goblins!, at 7pm at Village of global concerns,” organizer Shirley Osterhaus says. “The first year ATTEND global, the personal and Front St. The public is wel- WHAT: World Is- Books, 1200 11th St. focused heavily on issues related to 9/11. Since then, the forums the political. And realize come to watch. sues Forums 671-2626 VIEWS VIEWS 305-0593 have continued and expanded over the course of the years, encom- WHEN: 12pm that when acting on behalf passing many concerns and areas of the world.” most Wednesdays, of any of the concerns, WED., OCT. 8
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CLASSIFIEDS Compass Skills” clinic at Jupiter through a variety STORY AND PHOTO BY AMY KEPFERLE 6pm at Lake Padden. Take the east entrance and look of telescopes at the free 22 22 for the REI tent. event. Rain cancels. WHATCOMASTRONOMY.ORG 647-8955 FILM FILM This Old Tree THURS., OCT. 2 OCT. 4-5 FRUIT FESTIVAL: The 19th
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prickly things to tackle, but New York Theater writes of the Non- chops onstage when “Amateur Stand- 8 sense Company, “[They are] artists to be reckoned with… hi- up Night” kicks off at 8pm at the Up- lariously funny and awesomely tragic at the same time.” front Theatre, 1208 Bay St. General admission is $8. Rounding out the Caravan is Mike Mathieu of the Cody Rivers 733-8855 CURRENTS Show with his world-premiere solo piece, Purple Heart, about The Nonsense Company a desperate detective who takes on small-town injustice and WED., OCT. 8 6 cronyism to exonerate a possibly innocent man. PASSION OF DRACULA: See The Passion of Dracula at 7:30pm at White VIEWS VIEWS WITH THE iDiOM Theater still on hiatus, the American Mu- Fringe theater, at its best, isn’t experimental simply for the Rock B.C.’s Coast Capital Playhouse, seum of Radio and Electricity has opened its performance space sake of being experimental but rather finds its footing and en- 1532 Johnston Rd. Showings happen 4 for a four-night stand of off-the-map theater, all handpicked by ergy in the riotous joy of its unconventional- at 8pm Wed.-Sat. through Oct. 25. WHITEROCKPLAYERS.CA Andrew Connor of the Cody Rivers Show and Infinity Productions. ity. The important part is that, even while MAIL functioning beyond the realm of the familiar,
They’ve dubbed themselves the Mutant Theater Caravan—a name 3 signifying the oddball, nontraditional aesthetic of the perfor- somewhere inside each piece is a meaning- DANCE
mances—and if the weird brilliance of the Cody Rivers Show is ful, comprehensible imitation of life. IT DO any indication of what to expect, it should be four nights of “All of this work is accessible,” Connor says, FRI., OCT. 3 innovative, spirited theater with frequent bursts of heartbreak “insofar as it is not in the vein of obscure and CONTRA DANCE: Modal Turpitude 08 will provide tunes at tonight’s Contra and hilarity. potentially alienating performance art that .01.
Dance from 8-11pm at the Fairhaven 10 “These are some of my favorite shows and performance compa- is cryptic and impenetrable, like two hours Library, 1117 12th St. Suggested do-
nies that I have encountered over the past two years of touring of someone screaming in a bucket under a nation is $8-$10. .03
SEE IT 676-1554 40 around North America,” Connor says. “I’ve been wanting to bring blanket, or something along those lines.” # WHAT: The them to the Northwest since I came across them, and it just hap- Mutant Theatre The Mutant Theater Caravan is sure to sa- SAT., OCT. 4 pened to work out with all of their schedules.” Caravan tiate the appetites of those craving edgy FOLKDANCE: Kabile will play at to- Most of the pieces are multi-media presentations, such as As- WHEN: 8pm Oct. and original theater since the iDiOM closed night’s First Saturday Folkdance Party pen, Colo. humorist Barry Smith’s one-man show, Jesus in Mon- 8-11 its doors last June. In the interim between from 8-11pm at the Fairhaven Library, WHERE: American tana, which uses PowerPoint graphics, home movies and audio then and the iDiOM’s grand reopening next 1117 12th St. Suggested donation is Museum of Radio $10-$15. recordings to tell Smith’s true story of the years he spent with a and Electricity, year, the Radio and Electricity Museum’s
733-2044 CASCADIA WEEKLY Montana doomsday cult, living for a period in the basement in the 1312 Bay St. performance space has become an increas- COST: $12-$15 house of a man who claimed to be the second coming of Jesus. Je- ingly viable and reputedly awesome venue 15 sus in Montana won an Outstanding Solo Show Award at the 2005 INFO: infinitypro- to see a show. With a bill like this, it seems ductions.com New York International Fringe Festival. hard to miss. doit
30 30 EVENTS FOOD visual WED., OCT. 1 FALL CLASSES: A new season of classes for 25 25 GALLERIES OPENINGS PROFILES children, teens and adults kicks off this week at BellinghamART, 1701 Ellis St. 738-8379 OR BELLINGHAMART.COM CALL FOR ART: Those interested in taking CLASSIFIEDS part in “Reaching for the Light,” the annual breast cancer awareness art exhibit, have un- 22 22 til Oct. 3 to submit works to the Blue Horse Gallery, 301 W. Holly St. FILM FILM 671-2305 OR BLUEHORSE.COM FRI., OCT. 3 18 18 BY AMY KEPFERLE FIRST FRIDAY: The First Friday Gallery Walk happens from 6-9pm throughout downtown
MUSIC Anacortes. ANACORTESART.COM
16 16 Modern Primitive OCT. 4-5
ART ART STUDIO TOUR: The 14th annual Whatcom ART FAMILY, ART AND NATURE Artist Studio Tour happens from 10am-5pm throughout Whatcom County. The free, self-
15 guided tour features more than 50 working artists in their native habitats. The event continues Oct. 11-12. Maps can be picked up STAGE STAGE WHEN HE pulls his pickup truck into the slanted parking at each location. 392-7738 OR STUDIOTOUR.NET
14 area leading to the cavernous Old Town studio he shares with a ARTSTOCK: Celebrate the diverse artistic number of other local artists, Francis X Donovan will often find culture of San Juan Island at Artstock, which a log waiting for him in the driveway. As a longtime sculptor happens from 10am-8pm throughout Friday GET OUT who works primarily with wood, the offerings are more than Harbor. In addition to the numerous galleries welcome, they’re necessary. and studios that will open their doors for the 12 As he prepares for his first solo show in more than a decade, event, there’ll be live music, culinary events and much more. Donovan points to the 35 sculptures he’s gathered for the ex- ARTSTOCKSANJUANISLAND.COM WORDS hibit. Each one has a story, whether it’s where that particular piece of wood came from or the sculpture that resulted from MON., OCT. 6 REVIEW/PREVIEW: Works from Western 8 it. However they came about—as a way to begin to heal from Washington University’s art faculty can be the death of his son or as an ode to motherhood—Donovan seen at the “Faculty Review/Preview” ex- says he never begins a sculpture with a clear idea of how it hibit, which opens today at the Western
CURRENTS CURRENTS will turn out. Gallery. The show will be up through Nov. “It comes in as a log, with or without bark,” Donovan ex- 22. 6 plains. “I look at it for a few days, then start carving on it. 650-3963 OR WESTERNGALLERY.WWU.EDU Then the wood leads me. I’m working with my head, my heart TUES., OCT. 7 VIEWS VIEWS and my hands when I start a piece. The rest takes care of itself. PHOTO CLUB: The public is invited to at- The painting I do when I get tired of the sculpting.” tend the monthly meeting of the Bellingham 4 Although he’ll turn 65 this month, Donovan’s energy is infec- Photography Club at 7:15pm at St. Paul’s Epis- copal Church, 2117 Walnut St.
MAIL MAIL tious. He says his work keeps him going, and acknowledges that 714-8110 his wife’s support has allowed him to continue to pursue a cre-
3 ative life. “She doesn’t deny the boy in me,
DO IT IT DO and I appreciate the girl in her,” he notes. ONGOING EXHIBITS
In Donovan’s universe, the bonds of kin ALLIED ARTS: “Re Collections,” an exhibit
08 08 play a big factor. “F.A.N.—family, art and utilizing recycled materials, features works by Tom Calenberg, Mary Ennes Davis, Kathy .01.
nature—is my philosophy of life,” he says. PHOTO BY RYAN DUCLOS
10 Bastow, and Arunas Oslapas through Oct. 4 at “It’s important.” Allied Arts, 1418 Cornwall Ave.
.03 But Donovan wasn’t always an accom- its from the exhibit that will be on display through 676-8548 OR ALLIEDARTS.COM 40 # plished artist. For years, he was a tour di- SEE IT October at the former Newstand space will be do- ARTWOOD: The woodwork of David Gray will rector all over the globe and picked up a lot WHAT: Sculptures nated to the Food Bank in memory of his son, who be highlighted through October at Artwood of cultural exposure through osmosis. When and paintings by died with two other boys in a car accident near Gallery, 1000 Harris Ave. his kids were young and they lived in San Francis X Donovan Lake Whatcom. 647-1628 Francisco, he’d take them to the beach and WHEN: Opening “I’ve been doing this a long time, and it’s never BELLINGHAM RAILWAY MUSEUM: The mu- reception 5-9pm seum is open to the public from noon-5pm end up making sculptures with found ob- been about making money,” Donovan says. “We’ll Fri., Oct. 3; shows Tues. and Thurs.-Sat. at 1320 Commercial St. jects. He started carving with stone first, through Oct. 31 have kids in here to look at the studio and they’ll 393-7540 CASCADIA WEEKLY then eventually switched to wood. WHERE: Newstand ask, ‘Do you make a living doing this?’ I answer, ‘I DARKROOM: “Deja Revue,” a show featuring space, 111 E. Mag- 16 For Donovan, who describes his style as do it for living.’ I wouldn’t stop doing this even if photographer Tore Ofteness’ work from the “modern primitive,” making art has never nolia St. I won $20 million in the lottery. It’s about sharing late ’60s and early ’70s, shows until Nov. 6 at INFO: 927-8780 been about the lucre. A portion of the prof- the work.” Bellingham Family Health Clinic
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HISTORICAL MUSEUM: View “Lost Cities 17 of Skagit: Rediscovering Places of Our Past” 16 until Nov. 2 at La Conner’s Skagit County His- ART ART ART torical Museum, 501 South 4th St. (360) 466-3365 OR SKAGITCOUNTY.NET
INSIGHTS: New works by painter Larry Heald 15 can be viewed through Oct. 31 at Insights Gallery, 516 Commercial Ave., Anacortes. STAGE STAGE (360) 588-8044 OR INSIGHTSGALLERY.COM LUCIA DOUGLAS: Ceramic sculptures cre- 14 ated by noted Northwest artist Clayton James in the 1980s and abstract paintings Open year-round! by John Schaefer will be on display through GET OUT Oct. 11 at the Lucia Douglas Gallery, 1415 Locally grown flowers & bulbs 13th St. Gifts for your home & garden 733-5361 OR LUCIADOUGLAS.COM 12 MONA: Glass artist Ginny Ruffner’s “Aesthet- Ship flowers anywhere Don’t miss this hilarious musical whodunit! ic Engineering: The Imagination Cycle” can be in the USA overnight! WORDS perused until Oct. 5 at La Conner’s Museum of Who killed young Edwin Northwest Art, 121 S. First St. FRESH CUT FLOWERS AVAILABLE: Drood? You tell us—the (360) 466-4446 OR MUSEUMOFNWART.ORG Iris, Greenhouse Tulips, Asiatic Lilies, Oriental Lilies audience chooses the 8 ONE OF ONE: “Untied,” featuring the paper Flowers just don’t get any fresher! ending! This tuneful artistry of Helen Hiebert, is currently on dis- SELECT BULB VARIETIES comedy will be a big hit play at Bison Bookbinding’s One of One gal- NOW AVAILABLE ON OUR PORCH! CURRENTS with everybody. lery, 1420 N. State St. -ON THROUGH 3AT TO s 3UNDAY (OLIDAYS TO BISONBOOKBINDING.COM "EAVER -ARSH 2OAD s -OUNT 6ERNON 7! 6 PAPERDOLL: Erin Clancy’s “Animal Botani- s 6ISIT US ONLINE WWWTULIPSCOM 8:00 pm shows 2:00 pm shows cal” exhibit will be up through Oct. 10 at the
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email is the surprise element of so much of it. 30 30 Occasionally, somewhere between the black-mar- ket Viagra adverts and the impossibly lucrative FOOD music PREVIEWS RUMOR HAS IT home-based business offers, I’ll find a message I
25 25 wasn’t expecting but actually might be interested in. Case in point: I had not wondered about—nor even really thought of—erstwhile Bellingham resident Franki Chan since shortly after he fled CLASSIFIEDS Bellingham for Seattle. That is, until an email about him showed up in my inbox. For those of 22 22 you who have not lived in Bellingham since the musicPREVIEW
FILM FILM dawn of time, Franki (he was Frankie then. I guess that extra “e” was really holding him back)
18 18 was one of the resident bookers at the Show Off 18 18 BY CAREY ROSS Gallery. He was integral part of the locally leg- endary all-ages venue—and also instrumental in MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC booking Showoff or Shutup!, a multi-day musical
extravaganza, the indirect result of which was 16 Soundwaves the shuttering of the underground venue. At the ART ART time, the Showoff was thought to be the oldest A DAY AT THE BEACH continuously operating all-ages venue on the West Coast. Shortly 15 away from the place I loved—and the wa- after the implosion of
STAGE STAGE ter that surrounds it—for me to realize Showoff or Shutup!, the importance of the cause. Franki left town.
14 And that cause is not a small one. In These days, Franki short, the Surfrider Foundation, which lives in Los Angeles, has been around since the mid-’80s, seeks where he has reinvent- GET OUT to protect all of the world’s oceans and ed himself as a DJ for beaches, preserving them for the educa- what the Los Angeles 12 tion and enjoyment of all people, every- Times referred to as the where. Needless to say, it is a task as vast “chain-smoking, white-
WORDS and endless as the belt-and-owl-pendant- oceans themselves. adorned masses.” At BY CAREY ROSS 8 While Bellingham is this, he seems to have not technically situat- found his niche—and ed on an ocean proper, no small amount of success. However, the rea-
CURRENTS CURRENTS there can be no deny- son for the email was to let me know that Franki ing that the body of will be swinging back this way in late October 6 water to which we all as part of a 13-city tour. Granted, he won’t be lay claim, Bellingham coming to Bellingham, but if you want to chat
VIEWS VIEWS HEAR WHAT: Sound- Bay, is desperately in him up, maybe find out where that missing “e” waves feat. Surf need of the kind of went, he’ll be at Chop Suey in Seattle. 4 Messiahs, Vox protection the Surfrid- Closer to home, those dancing fools at Boogie
MAIL MAIL Solis, Boris Budd, er Foundation aims Universal are at it again. As for what they’re up more to offer. Recognizing to, that would be another semi-secret downtown
3 WHEN: 2pm Sat., BILL FRISELL Oct. 4 this, a group of envi- party. The drill is the same as the last go round
DO IT IT DO ronmentally minded (which, judging by the hairy, shirtless reveler I
WHERE: Boundary BORIS BUDD Bay Brewery, 1107 WWU students started saw wandering in the alley outside, was a re-
08 08 Railroad Ave. PHOTO BY HOLLIE HUTHMAN their own arm of the sounding success): it starts at 10pm Oct. 10 and COST: $7 adults, .01. Surfrider Foundation, continues into the wee hours of the morning.
10 $5 kids I HAVE to confess that I’d never heard of the Surfrider MORE INFO: the Northwest Straits Tickets are available now, cost $10 and can be
.03 Foundation until 1996, when Pearl Jam donated a song, “Grem- surfrider.org/nws/ Chapter (NWC), and had at Brown Paper Tickets (contact Boogie Uni-
40 index.html # mie Out of Control,” to a Surfrider-sponsored compilation called it is now the longest- versal for more details). The only catch is the Music For Our Mother Ocean. While the song, an upbeat ditty standing Associated location of the party is a secret until the day of, that clocked in at just more than two minutes, was just a flash Student club on the WWU campus. when it is revealed on the Boogie info line and in the pan of my longstanding relationship with the band, the And the NWC is not the kind of club website. The event is called Downtown Under- cause they’d donated it for stuck. where students sit around and talk about ground and features a lineup of top-notch rotat- You see, I’d just spent a landlocked semester in the Ari- things before eating milk and cookies and ing DJs all night long. And that’s just the tip zona desert, attending school and wondering how I’d ever going their separate ways. In other words, of the Boogie iceberg. They’re responsible for all CASCADIA WEEKLY taken my easy proximity to vast bodies of water for granted. if you’re a Western student and you join sorts of whatdoings during the coming months—
18 So, while Eddie Vedder may be responsible for putting the the NWC, you’d better be prepared for if they have their way, you’ll have a little Boogie Surfrider Foundation on my radar, it took several months SOUNDWAVES, CONT. ON 19 to look forward to all winter long. musicPREVIEW
at Boundary Bay and is an all-day
SOUNDWAVES, affair, including bands, a fashion FROM PAGE 18 show courtesy of Georgie Girls, a 30 silent auction rife with prizes from FOOD sponsors like Lib Tech, K2, and REI
some hard work and actual activ- that will ensure fun on both surf and 25 ism on behalf of the beaches and snow, and a whole slew activities for bodies of water you’re charged with the kids as well. protecting. Currently, the NWC is But the focus of Soundwaves is, Diane Arvin, M.D. engaged in the ongoing monitor- other than getting the word out Gynecology and Women's Healthcare CLASSIFIEDS ing of water quality at several area about the Surfrider Foundation, as
Welcoming New & Returning Patients 22 beaches; its members are active in always, on the music. Bands slated to to
the Snowrider Project, which aims perform at this year’s event include FILM to link the surf to the snow through the Surf Messiahs, Boris Budd, Vox 1202 Washington Street 18 18 Ride 542, a campaign that encour- Solis, North by Northwest, and many Bellingham, WA 98225 18 ages more carpooling (including more. While the musical entertain- Please call 360-676-8212 anytime to schedule plans for a biodiesel ski bus) and ment covers genres of all types and MUSIC a timely, convenient appointment MUSIC less traffic on the Mt. Baker High- styles, it’s safe to say that at least Gentle competent care throughout a woman's lifetime way; as well as Rise Above Plastics, a few of the performers will chan- which educates folks about the nel their inner Dick Dale and produce 16 myriad dangers plastics present to some undeniably surfy sounds. ART marine life. And that’s just the tip While I’m well aware that we’re of this environmental iceberg. emerging from a summer that almost 15 Partly to raise awareness of the never was and heading full-tilt into
organization and its goals and partly an autumn that’s already underway, STAGE because any altruistic effort these that doesn’t mean you can’t soak
days requires a coffer of cold, hard up a last bit of sun to a soundtrack 14 cash, the NWC has, for the past four that’s fit for the shore. If you close years, thrown a giant party/concert your eyes and use your imagination, called Soundwaves. This year’s in- you can almost pretend it’s just an- GET OUT stallment takes place Sat., Oct. 4 other day at the beach. 12 Eff!Xjmefsnvui!BSOQ!!XpnfoÖt!Ifbmui!Ovstf!Qsbdujujpofs!'!Dmbttjdbm!Ipnfpqbui WORDS
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Jumpin’,” a pirate adventure/ IT DO KIRTAN: All ages are welcome musical comedy, will be per- to join in a call-and-response TUES., OCT. 7 formed by Harmony Northwest, Kirtan at 6:30pm at Everbody’s COWBOY SONGS: Traveling 08 the Mount Baker Toppers, and Yoga, 1609 Broadway. Admis- folksinger Hank Cramer per- .01.
the Honeybees at 7pm at Melo- 10 sion is by donation. forms “Songs of the Cowboys” dy Hall, 1401 Home Rd. Tickets 738-2207 at a family-friendly concert
are $13-$16. .03 at 7pm at the Lynden Library, GORDON BOK: Maine folk mu- HARMONYNORTHWEST.ORG 40 sician Gordon Bok will perform 216 4th St. # JAZZ SHOW: The Paul Chan- “Songs of the Sea” at 7:30pm 354-4883 dler Jazz Ensemble will per- at the Whatcom Museum, 121 Auto Accident •Fall •Defective Product form at 7:30pm at La Conner’s WED., OCT. 8 INJURED? Prospect St. He’ll be joined by Maple Hall, 104 Commercial St. JOHN MILLER: Guitarist and harpist Carol Rohl. Tickets are Tickets are $15-$17. country blues practitioner Free consultation $25 and proceeds will benefit (360) 466-2665 OR John Miller will give a CD the Small Boat Center. (360) 312-5156 Michael Heatherly LACONNERARTS.COM release concert for This Old 778-8930
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16 Main St. Bar and Open Mic w/Chuck D feat. Country Karaoke Tony & the Tigers Tony & the Tigers Karaoke ART ART Grill Kristi Nelson
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painstakingly animating each of his films by hand with an older-than-old-school 35mm animation camera that is key to his work.
“Visually, my last few movies would’ve been
30 30 film impossible without my old camera,” Hertzfeldt REVIEWS FILM TIMES says, praising his prized machine. “And work- FOOD ing this way is honestly just more fun. I’d
25 25 much rather build a shot with my hands and paint and lighting beneath a camera lens than sit and stare in front of a monitor. It’s more spontaneous and it keeps me on my toes.” CLASSIFIEDS He also avers that, while his handcrafted work takes longer to produce, the surprises 22 22 22 22 he encounters during the process make it BY IAN CHANT FILM FILM FILM FILM entirely worthwhile. “Each short can take a couple years for me to complete in solitary confinement,” he says, “so anything along 18 18 I Am So Proud of You the way that keeps me improvising and fresh is going to be a good thing.” MUSIC INSIDE THE TWISTED ’TOONS OF DON HERTZFELDT And this Tues., Oct.7,
Hertzfeldt himself 16 will be presenting two
ART ART showings of I Am So Proud of You, along with a selection of his 15 much-loved short films
STAGE STAGE at Bellingham’s Pickford SEE IT Cinema, a place where
14 the animator’s previous WHAT: An efforts have already Evening with Don proven wildly popular. GET OUT Hertzfeldt For some, this means a WHEN: 6:30pm and 8:45pm Tues, chance to discover the 12 Oct. 7 work of an acclaimed WHERE: Pickford but still relatively un-
WORDS Cinema, 1416 known filmmaker. For Cornwall Ave. others among us, it just COST: $10, 8 advance tickets means practicing lines available at the for Ah, L’amour, just Pickford box office one of many deviant
CURRENTS CURRENTS MORE INFO: acts Hertzfeldt enjoys pickfordcinema. seeing when he inter- com 6 acts with audiences. “There’s all sorts of culty things people do VIEWS VIEWS YOU COULD accuse Don Hertzfeldt of having a dark take on with the films now and I like almost all of life, and you probably wouldn’t be wrong. Characters in the Academy it. …People in the costumes, with the tat- 4 Award-nominated animator’s short films regularly meet with gruesome toos—Everything Will Be OK tattoos now—I
MAIL MAIL demises and terrible fates. Hapless suitors are flayed alive. Cheerful- the relationship between the two films. “It’s impor- just like hearing that those connections are being made,” he says. “It’s the main reason
looking red balloons turn on the children they’re tethered to with tant for all three chapters to stand on their own two 3 disturbing results. And sometimes, whole ani- feet as individual movies.” I’m heading out on tour now with the new
DO IT IT DO mated universes collapse upon their terrified Hertzfeldt’s approach to the new trilogy has been one,”
inhabitants. It’s all utterly cringe inducing to look at them as “children’s books for adults.” Hertzfeldt’s visit to Bellingham is part of
08 08 and absolutely hilarious. “Bedtime stories are there to help kids be less a string of rare public appearances will take
.01. But Hertzfeldt’s latest film, I Am So Proud of afraid of certain things and to gently let them fall him throughout the United States. 10 You, is the next step down a different road for asleep in the dark easier, and in some ways Bill’s story “Eventually putting your movie on TV or
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# trademark dark humor and surreal visual sense adults are afraid of,” Hertzfeldt says. “I think there’s ences, but you can’t actually be there with remain intact. But instead of the simpler fare a kind of innocence the animation brings to what is a them to see it working, you know? With a like love and commercialism tackled in his sad and difficult story, and Bill seems to have become new movie… it’s really important for me earlier pieces, I Am So Proud of You explores the everyday trials and a character that’s very easy to relate to. Animation to actually see it unfold for people and be tribulations of the millions of people living with mental illness. can help let ideas slip through the door that other- there when it happens,” he says. I Am So Proud of You is the second film in a planned trilogy, a sequel of wise might hit too close to home. People tend to be And with Hertzfeldt returning to his stu- sorts that takes place both before and after Hertzfeldt’s award-winning a little more open-minded watching a cartoon, espe- dio to get to work on new material (includ- CASCADIA WEEKLY 2007 film, Everything Will Be OK and follows the continuing adventures of cially when you make them laugh.” ing a television project set 100 years in the
22 Bill, a lonely everyman struggling through life as best he can. For all it’s thematic departures, I Am So Proud of past) after his tour ends in December, it’s “I wanted to make sure that you didn’t necessarily have to have You continues Hertzfeldt’s tradition of eschewing a chance you probably won’t get again for seen the first one to understand the second one,” says Hertzfeldt of modern computer-animation techniques in favor of some time.
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18 18 An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt: See preview on NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST tISNJO previous page. ★★★★★ 6OSBUFEtISNJO Sunset Square 12:15 | 2:45 | 5:05 | 7:40 | 10:15 Pickford Tues., Oct. 7 @ 6:30 & 8:45 MUSIC The Order of Myths: A sobering documentary about Appaloosa: Set in the Old West territory of New Burn After Reading: Proving themselves to be Hail the Conquering Hero: The Pickford’s shame- some of the most versatile, visionary filmmakers in less love affair with Preston Sturges continues in the oldest Mardi Gras celebration in the country, Mexico, this movie revolves around a pair of hired
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did it seem he wasn’t enjoying himself. We drawn to men with problems, that’s 16 laughed and flirted. He even mentioned a problem. If you just aren’t paying ART ART a second date. Then it happened. In the attention, you have to start. People eighth inning, after we’d each had four usually give you clues as to who they beers, he went to the bathroom. The ninth 15 really are—in conversation and on- inning starts, and he’s not back. The game line. Do your best to spot them, but
STAGE STAGE ends. He’s still gone. He left this voicemail don’t take it personally when dates on my phone: “Hey, I’m across the street at turn out to be duds. You might even
14 a bar called...” I call him a few times. No use bad dates as a gateway to better answer. So, I text him, “What kind of per- dates. Break the ice with “So tell me: son leaves a woman stranded at a baseball Worst date ever?” Cross your fingers GET OUT game?!” He responds, “A bad one.” Sigh. that the guy won’t top yours (with his I’m always attracting losers. What the hell tale or on your first date): “I mean, 12 did I do to deserve this one? —Stunned how could I not know, when he said he’d never drive drunk, that he meant
WORDS At baseball games, a lot of people cut out early to beat the rush. Maybe this he always passes out before he can guy drank so much that he did that— find his car?” 8 and then, at the bar, remembered, “Oh, DISSING IN ACTION crap, I was on a date!” My boyfriend and I are in the military. After What kind of person leaves a woman CURRENTS CURRENTS dating six months, I deployed (until the stranded at a baseball game? “A bad end of the year). I’ve been gone 10 weeks.
6 one,” sure. Beyond that, my guess? A It took him three weeks to email me, and thrifty drunk. Maybe he needs to be he only writes once a week. He hasn’t sent
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10 I dump her off at the train station!” know what you need. Tell him you love The devil on the other snapped, “Why getting email from him, and you’d love .03 wait? To hell with her, we’re going to 40 to get more. He doesn’t have to emote. # the bar!” Just write something and hit “send.” There’s an ideal time to find out a Meanwhile, be open to the possibil- guy’s all “Every day’s an alcoholiday ity that he actually can go on without for me!” and it isn’t when he’s your you, and is—perhaps the message he’s ride back to the train. On a first date, been trying to send with that slew of I you should always have a getaway Don’t Care packages. Sure, maybe he’s
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